User Guide
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Place the Messiah disc into your CD-ROM drive. If autoplay is enabled, the installation
process will begin automatically. If the disc does not autoplay, go to your Start menu and select
Run. Click on Browse and select your CD-ROM drive. Select setup.exe and click Open and then
OK.
Follow the on-screen Install Shield prompts to install the game. When the game is finished
being copied onto your hard drive, you will have the option to launch the readme file, launch
Messiah, or finish and return to Windows.
STARTING THE GAME
Upon launching Messiah, the game will load the Main Menu. From here, you can choose to
Play Game, change your Options such as Control, Video, and Sound Settings, or watch the
Introduction to the game. When navigating the menus, the up and down arrow keys will change
which option is highlighted and pressing the Enter key will select the highlighted option. Press
the ESC key to go back to the previous screen.
PLAY GAME
After choosing Play Game, Messiah will ask if you would like to start a New Game or Load a
Game. Choosing New Game will allow you to choose a Difficulty setting at which point your
game will begin.
OPTIONS
When selecting the Control Setup in Options, you are able to change the default control keys
to play Messiah. In the Control Setup you will also be able to choose joystick control, adjust
mouse sensitivity, or reset to the default control configuration. Press ESC to save your changes
and return to the previous menu.
When selecting Video Settings, you will be able to configure your video device including the
adjustment of screen resolution. The game defaults to w depthbuffering. If while playing
Messiah you experience problems with parts of the game levels flickering or if objects appear in
front of behind others which they shouldn’t, try switching the depthbuffering setting to z.
In the Sound Settings area of Options, you will have the ability to turn CD music on and off and
adjust the CD and sound effects volume.
INTRO
Selecting this will play the introduction of the game. Note that the introduction will also play
any time the player chooses to start a new game.
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